Characters Quotes · Page 36

For years, humorous characters in cartoons have been almost exclusively male.

— Paul Dini

“Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.”

— Amit Kalantri

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

— Kurt Sutter

Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.

— Hugh B. Brown

“Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

— Elizabeth Strout

“The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.”

— Amit Kalantri

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

— Meat Loaf

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

— Gillian Flynn

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family…

— Seth Numrich

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

— Maria Bamford

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them…

— Ruth Ozeki

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity…

— Tom Hollander

I can't write my films in La-La Land. I don't know how to write for my characters like that.

— Kabir Khan

A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very…

— Miriam Shor

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her…

— Hannah Murray

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested…

— Doug Liman

We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it?…

— Maureen Dowd

The most interesting thing to me is that 'The Walking Dead' is a show that reinvents itself every eight episodes. It's an…

— Scott M. Gimple

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You…

— Sasha Roiz

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little…

— Leo McCarey

If I watch something, I want to be wondering what is going to happen next; I want to be engaged in a…

— Ewen Bremner

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that…

— Meg Cabot

I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my…

— Jim Jarmusch

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need…

— Adam Shankman

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to…

— Anne Michaels

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very…

— David Tennant

I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.

— John Logan

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is…

— Matt Mullenweg

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

— Lance Reddick

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

— Ashish Sharma

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was…

— Simon Callow

“Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and…

— Wilbur Smith

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like…

— Francoise Sagan

The characters don't get older. No one wants to see Stewie grow up because then he'd just get bigger and become a…

— Seth Macfarlane

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't…

— Chris Colfer

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

— Travis Knight

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa